Black and white scan which is a newspaper clipping of an unknown source reporting on the death of Binkley Coal Mine # 1 worker Joe Marcinko. According to the article, Joe Marcinko was working as a shot firer (a worker who inserts explosive...

Scan of a newspaper clipping including two photographs and accompanying captions taken from a newspaper article in the Terre Haute Tribune. The newspaper article, titled “Survivors Tell Terror Tale Of Hours In Mine: Hope Almost Abandoned As Air...

Black and white photocopy of a newspaper photograph of the Bob-O-Link (Binkley) coal mine. The 1935 strip mine opened south of Seelyville called Bob-O-Link, and everyday as Binkley Mine. The mine operated until 1942 as the Pyramid Coal Company. The...

Duplicated typescript history of the Maumee Collieries Company from 1933 to 1954, which includes a map of mine locations, tipple flow diagrams and photographs relating to the Old Glory Mine No. 17, the Chieftain Mine No. 20, the Sycamore Mine No,...

This article describes a confrontation in 1932 between members of the United Mine Workers along with their supporters and a "scab union" called the Associated Miners Union of Indiana along with their supporters.

Black and white photograph showing a tipple at one of the Bunsen coal mines near Universal, Indiana. In this photograph, coal cars loaded with coal sit underneath the tipple, and a mine worker stands in the foreground. These twin coal mines were...

Black and white photograph showing a tipple at one of the Bunsen coal mines near Universal, Indiana. In this photograph, coal cars loaded with coal sit underneath the tipple with mine workers posing next to each car. Each coal car holds coal of a...

Newspaper clipping showing the mine safety team of Jackson Hill Mine No. 2 (Sullivan County, Indiana) and a patient at a meet held in Clinton in 1916. The caption below the photograph reads, "MINE SAFETY MEET WAY BACK WHEN - This mine safety team...

This article describes two disasters. The first was an underground fire at the Lankford-Harris mine in Sugar Creek Township on January 26, 1903 which killed one miner. The second was the collision of a passenger train with a freight train on...

This is a photograph of the Crown Hill Mine No. 5, owned and operated by the Clinton Coal Company, Clinton, Indiana, from 1910-1930. Thomas Dickerson was the fireman and Harry Newland was the engineer at the mine. In the foreground is a team of...

This is a photograph of the Crown Hill Mine No. 5, owned and operated by the Clinton Coal Company, Clinton, Indiana, from 1910-1930. Thomas Dickerson was the fireman and Harry Newland was the engineer at the mine. In the foreground is a team of...

Black and white photograph of a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. A mine cart is moving up a railway on the left of the photograph, and in bottom center a man stands at the end of a truck bed. The truck is partially...

Black and white photograph of a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. A mine cart is moving up a railway on the left of the photograph, and in bottom center a man stands at the end of a truck bed. The truck is partially...

Black and white photograph depicting a group of eight men standing outside one of the Bunsen mines near Universal, Indiana. Only one of the men is dressed in mining clothes. The Bunsen coal mines were owned by Bunsen Coal Company up until around...